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wow that is a really good looking captain rex have you thought at all about dry brushing some chrome silver on the edges and barrels of the blaster to give them a more weathered metal and battle worn look?

wow that is a really good looking captain rex have you thought at all about dry brushing some chrome silver on the edges and barrels of the blaster to give them a more weathered metal and battle worn look?

i'm going for a look that's as close to the animation as i can get... the animated ones have no silver weathering on them, so neither do i

what kind of bucket is that?
could we get some more info on the building process of the armor?
I'd love to know how you did the Kama, I can't figure out how to do trim.
Any tips on making those DCs? I thought that'd be more originale for me then westers.

Rex is The Bomb! I want to make ani-clone armor when i finish my custom Mando.... That will be a while I need to repain it.... but that Rex kicks tinny butt!!! He was the bomb tonight on Clone Wars did any one notice the parental warning on tonights episode!?

could we get some more info on the building process of the armor?
I'd love to know how you did the Kama, I can't figure out how to do trim.
Any tips on making those DCs? I thought that'd be more originale for me then westers.

how i made it all is sort of a mess

silly as it may seem, this is a temporary suit.

i'm doing my own 100% from scratch clone kit, based on the clone wars style armor. from head to toe, it will be all made by me. i've got the first pulls of the forearms done:

those are the prototypes. i need to tweak the masters a bit to get some better detail in a few spots.

you can see the biceps and hand plates untrimmed here:

the pistols i made out of MDF:

then i molded them and made a pair in resin. but i trashed the mold by accident, so i had to do a LOT of cleanup to the resin ones. i'm planning to make a new mold at some point soon.

Have you ever worked with sintra? I'm considering trying to make some Clone Wars armor now that my Mando is mostly done.
But the full body armor is a pain to mold in my experience, I can't tell you how much time we spent trying to make gauntlets, and we still didn't figure it out.
If you have any ideas to make molding easier that would be helpful.
(on a side note, after seeing you make that bucket, I think I may make one regardless)